PL/SQL Experts in Berlin
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Vili D.
Last position:
Technical Lead, Data Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Consulting
Optimized the data architecture (Medallion) to better decouple processing steps and improve transparency and reproducibility
Ensured the technical quality of data processing in Databricks by introducing schema enforcement, data quality checks, and a structured data architecture
Pipeline orchestration with Azure Data Factory
Improved and automated the development and deployment process by integrating Git and GitHub Actions
Technical leadership of the Data Engineering team (3 employees)
Led workshops to optimize and stabilize the data platform and development process
Collected and prioritized new requests and maintained the product backlog
Technologies: Microsoft Azure (Data Lake, Data Factory), Databricks, Apache Spark (PySpark), Python, SQL, Git, Confluence, Power BI, Power Apps, Dataverse, MS Sharepoint, Mural
Mukund B.
Last position:
Voice AI Chatbot - Real-Time Audio Assistant
- ▶ Built real-time voice assistant (STT → LLM → TTS pipeline) benchmarking and evaluating multiple STT providers including faster-whisper and Azure Speech. achieved sub-3s latency, Groq API (Llama 3) with multi-turn memory - directly handling edge cases in dictation, names and passcode recognition.
Gyan P.
Last position:
Senior DevOps & Cloud Architect, Head of Infrastructure at Bosch
- Azure Landing Zone architecture: Design and implement a hub-spoke, multi-region-capable Azure landing zone that provides the secure, scalable and highly available foundation for autonomous driving and parking data/ML platforms.
- Compliance through Azure Policy: Enforce security and compliance standards across Azure subscriptions via Azure Policy (guardrails, deny/audit/deploy-if-not-exists), consistently achieving top-tier infrastructure security scores.
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Automate provisioning and configuration of Azure resources with Terraform and Bicep, with changes delivered through reviewed CI/CD pipelines.
- Azure Databricks and Unity Catalog: Extensive experience operating Azure Databricks with Unity Catalog for centralized data governance, access control, lineage and auditing across workspaces.
- Monitoring and observability: Built and run infrastructure monitoring and logging with Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana and Loki, covering platform health, alerting, troubleshooting and capacity trends.
- Platform at scale: Architected and operate cloud data/ML platforms supporting multi-PB vehicle data ingestion and simulation; orchestrate Argo Workflow-based recompute and autolabeling services scaling to 100k+ concurrent pods on AKS.
- Reproducible ML: Established reproducible training environments with dataset versioning and provenance tracking, enabling auditing and experiment reliability.
- Operational excellence: Automated GitHub organization management and CI/CD pipelines, improving developer productivity and deployment reliability; automated recurring operational processes.
- FinOps: Developed transparent resource utilization and cost-tracking for multi-project Azure environments.
- Leadership: Technical lead for infrastructure topics, collaborating with development, DevOps and security teams; technical interviewer and recruitment panel member for scaling the engineering team.
Neil P.
Last position:
Software Engineer at AKDB
- Maintenance, further development, modernization and testing of the OK.VERKEHR specialist application, a monolithic Enterprise Java solution (with approx. 3,5 Mio LOC) for vehicle registration and driving license authorities
- Design, development, testing and maintenance of end-to-end workflows (dialogs, backend services and persistence layer, test suite) for new driving license applications, changes/extensions to driving licenses, management of parking permits and truck driver cards
- Development and maintenance of web services for communication between local traffic authorities and the Federal Motor Transport Authority, FAER register, TÃœV testing centers and driving schools
- Performance optimization and targeted refactoring for the future migration to a cloud architecture and the addition of a new web client (Vaadin)
- 3rd-level support for customers during ongoing operations
Salvation O.
Last position:
Product Management Consultant at Self-Employed (Freelancer)
- Led end-to-end product discovery and strategy engagements for early-stage founders (pre-seed) clients, defining product vision, OKRs, and go-to-market strategies and roadmaps for their cloud-based and AI-enabled solutions.
- Designed scalable product operating models (Agile/Scrum, backlog governance, KPI frameworks) as part of the partnership, to improve delivery predictability and reduce feature cycle time by up to 30%.
- Built scalable product roadmaps aligned to fundraising milestones, helping founders articulate product vision, product<>market fit, and traction clearly to investors.
André G.
Last position:
IT Consulting Project Management / Engineering Subproject Management at T-Systems (on assignment for government agencies)
- Projects for federal networks (NdB).
- CR management, EoL change requests, design and documentation according to ITSCM.
- Data center planning.
- Project management and engineering subproject management.
- Software development for virtual server environments according to BSI.
G P.
Last position:
Oracle Apps Technical Consultant, Oracle EBS to Oracle Fusion SCM Migration Specialist at LTIMindtree India PVT LTD.
- Client: Terex Corporation
Rohini A.
Last position:
Senior Product Manager at Zalando
- Product strategy & vision: Led campaign performance reporting platform serving 700+ partners, transformed manual MSTR-based weekly reporting to real-time self-service platform enabling partner autonomy and operational efficiency
- Strategic roadmap management: Led phased migration prioritizing Performance campaigns (70% revenue) ahead of Awareness and Engagement, driving iterative platform evolution aligned with objectives, partner feedback, GDPR compliance, and data retention policies
- User research & customer discovery: Conducted regular user interviews with partners to understand reporting needs, decision-making processes, and additional KPI requirements, translating insights into platform enhancements and feature prioritization
- Cross-functional leadership: Collaborated with Product Consultants, analysts, data engineers, frontend teams, and product marketing to execute seamless platform migration, reducing PC team size by 2 FTEs while improving service quality
- Scaled user adoption: Strategically onboarded partners starting with top 30 partner-program partners, expanding to all 700+ partner-program and wholesale partners through user education documentation, training coordination, and iterative feedback incorporation
- Data-driven product optimization: Implemented Google Analytics tracking and engagement monitoring, identified low-engagement features (report downloads, detailed links), deployed AppCues and re-education campaigns resulting in 40% weekly engagement rate
- KPI standardization & governance: Led cross-functional initiative to standardize KPI definitions and formulas across reports, dashboards, and ZMS platform, defined North Star metrics and essential KPIs for each campaign objective ensuring consistent measurement and decision-making
Marcus K.
Last position:
Senior Software Developer (APEX) at Various
- Further development and tuning of a medium-sized application for managing events and participants
- Identification of bottlenecks
- Adding missing foreign keys and indexes
- Reprogramming views and SQL queries in APEX
- Report development with Jasper Reports
- Mentoring other APEX developers
Jürgen B.
Last position:
Database Administrator and Performance Tuning Specialist at ALD Automotive Leasing Deutschland
- Database administration and performance tuning for Oracle databases on AIX 7.1, 7.2 with Oracle 12c and 19c
- Troubleshooting and resolution on RHEL 7
- Automation of operations with UNIX/Linux shell scripts, Perl programs, and PL/SQL
- Planning, preparation, execution, and customer-specific review of changes and upgrades for the LEASMAN and DOXIS applications
- Incident handling including communication with outsourcing service providers and business units
- Data exchange with Data Pump
- Visualization of database content and monitoring results
- Configuration of databases for Debezium and monitoring Debezium activities
- Preparation of Oracle databases for migration to cloud environments
- Implementation and monitoring of NIST requirements in databases
- Automation of release upgrades for the LEASMAN application
- Creation of operations manuals and instructions
- Generation of reports for GDPR information requests
Eric N.
Last position:
Data Engineer at Creditsafe Deutschland GmbH
Steffen L.
Last position:
Berdas Data Service UG
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Statistics of experts using PL/SQL
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years (Germany: 24 years)
Position duration
3 years (Germany: 3.2 years)
Positions per freelancer
12 (Germany: 17)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Automotive, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
80% (Germany: 85%)
Master's degree or higher
60% (Germany: 53%)
Doctorate
10% (Germany: 6%)
Certifications per freelancer
2 (Germany: 3)
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
92% (Germany: 97%)
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Berlin are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Berlin using PL/SQL
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
PL/SQL experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (92%)
- Automotive (58%)
- Manufacturing (58%)
- Banking and Finance (50%)
- Transportation (33%)
- Telecommunication (33%)
- Education (25%)
- Healthcare (25%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Oracle’s procedural language
PL/SQL, short for Procedural Language/SQL, extends SQL with variables, conditions, loops, exception handling and reusable program units. It runs inside Oracle Database, close to the data, and is used to implement reliable business rules, transactions and data-processing workflows. Strong specialists understand both the language and Oracle’s execution model.
Enterprise data workloads
PL/SQL appears in banking, insurance, logistics, manufacturing, public services and other systems that depend on consistent relational data. It supports stored procedures, functions, packages, triggers and scheduled jobs for tasks such as settlement logic, validation, reporting and controlled data movement. In Berlin, companies often need this expertise when established Oracle systems must evolve without disrupting core operations.
Ecosystem and tooling
The surrounding skill set includes Oracle Database, SQL, data modeling, indexing, query plans and transaction management. Professionals may also work with Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, REST integrations, Java services, ETL tools and version control. Useful tools include SQL Developer, SQL*Plus, database monitoring utilities and automated deployment pipelines.
- Create and refactor packages, procedures and functions
- Diagnose slow queries, locking and execution-plan issues
- Build controlled data migrations and integration routines
- Test database logic and automate schema releases
When freelance expertise helps
Companies bring in freelance specialists during Oracle modernization, major releases, audits, migrations or performance work. External expertise is also valuable when a small internal team owns critical database logic or when undocumented PL/SQL has become difficult to change. A focused professional can review dependencies, reduce operational risk and leave clear technical documentation.
What strong specialists deliver
Good PL/SQL professionals write readable, modular code and make transaction boundaries explicit. They consider indexes, cardinality, bulk processing, error handling, security and rollback behavior rather than optimizing a single statement in isolation. They also explain trade-offs clearly to application teams, data specialists and business stakeholders.
Selecting the right profile
Assess candidates through a concrete discussion of a package, query or migration similar to the planned work. Ask how they would investigate a slow statement, protect data during a release and test trigger or transaction behavior. For remote collaboration, agree on repository practices, database access, deployment controls and documentation; on-site work may matter when production processes or regulated environments require close coordination.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about PL/SQL? Start with the answers below.
PL/SQL is Oracle’s procedural extension to SQL. Companies use it for stored procedures, functions, packages, triggers, validations, transaction workflows and data-intensive processing inside Oracle Database.
PL/SQL runs close to the data, which can reduce data movement and keep transaction rules consistent. Application code in Java, C# or another language may be easier to scale across services, so the right split depends on data ownership, performance, release practices and system architecture.
A strong PL/SQL specialist usually brings advanced SQL, Oracle Database internals, data modeling, indexing and execution-plan analysis. Experience with Oracle Forms, Java integrations, REST services, ETL workflows, Git and automated database delivery is useful for broader enterprise work.
The needed level depends on risk and scope rather than a fixed tenure. PL/SQL work involving financial rules, legacy dependencies, performance incidents or production migrations calls for a specialist who has handled comparable systems and can demonstrate careful testing and rollback planning.
PL/SQL projects can often be handled remotely when secure database access, clear environments and reliable release controls are available. On-site collaboration in Berlin can help with workshops, sensitive production processes or close coordination with local application and operations teams; language expectations should be agreed early.
Review how the specialist reasons about execution plans, locking, exception handling, transactions and test coverage. High-quality PL/SQL is modular, documented, observable and safe to deploy, not merely a query that returns the expected result.
PL/SQL remains important when core business rules and data controls already live in Oracle Database. During modernization, specialists can separate reusable database logic, expose it through services, improve testing and decide which workloads should stay in the database or move to application services.
Before taking on PL/SQL work, clarify the Oracle versions, schemas, deployment process, access restrictions, test data and production support expectations. Also ask whether the assignment covers new packages, legacy remediation, performance tuning, migration work or integration with Oracle Forms and external services.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used PL/SQL in their recent projects is 96 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 766 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used PL/SQL in their recent projects, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 60% hold at least a Master's degree, and 10% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used PL/SQL in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used PL/SQL in their recent projects are German (100%), English (92%), and French (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used PL/SQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (92%), Automotive (58%), and Manufacturing (58%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Berlin, Germany who have used PL/SQL in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Business Intelligence (75%), and Product Development (75%).
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